PEP 358 and operations on bytes

[John Machin]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> On 2006-10-04 05:10:32 +0200, John Machin wrote:
> > >     - str methods endswith, find, partition, replace, split(lines),
> > >       startswith,
> > >     - Regular expressions
> > >
> > > I think those can be useful on a bytes type. Perhaps bytes and str could
> > > share a common parent class? They certainly share a lot of properties
> > > and possible operations one might want to perform.
> > >
> >
> > I look at it this way::
> > Processing text? Use unicode.
> > Binary structures and file I/O, interfacing to 8-bit-wide channels? Use
> > bytes.
>
> But can I use regular expressions on bytes?
> Regular expressions are not limited to text.

So why haven't you been campaigning for regular expression support for
sequences of int, and for various array.array subtypes?